| Jack creates exceptional pieces of wooden art. They are exceptional in both the skill with which he works the wood, and his choice of the most fascinating pieces of wood. He crafts the wood into exceptional statements of art and nature.
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| Jack Hoyt - Artistic Woodturner
My wood working career started in 1978, when I was a logger and had a good supply of big leaf maple burls. Soon I was making tables and doing wood carvings. In 1997, I started turning on a lathe and knew this is what I wanted to do with my life.
"I feel like a treasure hunter with the goal of finding the beauty in the grain and unlocking the soul of every piece of wood I work on. "
After joining the Northwest Washington Woodturners, I started going to demonstrations and taking lessons from everyone I could. I found my interests were different in that I liked turning root wads. They are the most challenging to turn and produce the most unusual and exquisite grain pattern.This led me to build a lathe to turn large root wads. The lathe enables me to turn up to a 6 ft in diameter object weighting 400 - 500 pounds.
The beauty and clarity of the grain in each piece I turn or carve is achieved by many hours of sanding and applying multiple coats of finish. My choice... |
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